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She arrived at a peace negotiation and found a mat on the floor where her chair should have been. She sat on an attendant's back instead, conducted the meeting at eye level, and remarked afterward that she didn't use the same chair twice. Then she went home and raised an army. Queen Nzinga — the woman Portugal spent thirty years failing to defeat. https://oddlet.com/p/f41 #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Trinity College banned dogs. Byron checked the statutes, found no mention of bears, and installed one. He also kept wolves, monkeys, and a crocodile at home. Meet Lord Byron — the most gloriously ungovernable man in English literature. https://oddlet.com/p/eb0 #Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt